TY - JOUR
T1 - Functional Carbazole-Fullerene Complexes
T2 - A New Perspective of Carbazoles Acting as Nano-Octopus to Capture Globular Fullerenes
AU - Liu, Xitong
AU - Wang, Wei
AU - Fan, Zhenqiang
AU - Huang, Wanning
AU - Luo, Lixing
AU - Yang, Canglei
AU - Zhang, Jing
AU - Zhao, Jianfeng
AU - Zhang, Lei
AU - Huang, Wei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Wiley-VCH GmbH
PY - 2021/7/16
Y1 - 2021/7/16
N2 - Fullerene host-guest constructs have attracted increasing attention owing to their molecular-level hybrid arrangements. However, the usage of simple carbazolic derivatives to bind with fullerenes is rare. In this research, three novel carbazolic derivatives, containing a tunable bridging linker and carbazole units for the capturing of fullerenes, are rationally designed. Unlike the general concave-convex interactions, fullerenes could interact with the planar carbazole subunits to form 2-dimensional hexagonal/quadrilateral cocrystals with alternating stacking patterns of 1 : 1 or 1 : 2 stoichiometry, as well as the controllable fullerene packing modes. At the meanwhile, good electron-transporting performances and significant photovoltaic effects were realized when a continuous C60⋅⋅⋅C60 interaction channel existed. The results indicate that the introduction of such carbazolic system into fullerene receptor would provide new insights into novel fullerene host-guest architectures for versatile applications.
AB - Fullerene host-guest constructs have attracted increasing attention owing to their molecular-level hybrid arrangements. However, the usage of simple carbazolic derivatives to bind with fullerenes is rare. In this research, three novel carbazolic derivatives, containing a tunable bridging linker and carbazole units for the capturing of fullerenes, are rationally designed. Unlike the general concave-convex interactions, fullerenes could interact with the planar carbazole subunits to form 2-dimensional hexagonal/quadrilateral cocrystals with alternating stacking patterns of 1 : 1 or 1 : 2 stoichiometry, as well as the controllable fullerene packing modes. At the meanwhile, good electron-transporting performances and significant photovoltaic effects were realized when a continuous C60⋅⋅⋅C60 interaction channel existed. The results indicate that the introduction of such carbazolic system into fullerene receptor would provide new insights into novel fullerene host-guest architectures for versatile applications.
KW - carbazole derivatives
KW - fullerene receptor
KW - host-guest systems
KW - optoelectronic applications
KW - self-assembly
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U2 - 10.1002/chem.202101192
DO - 10.1002/chem.202101192
M3 - 文章
C2 - 34003527
AN - SCOPUS:85107177564
SN - 0947-6539
VL - 27
SP - 10448
EP - 10455
JO - Chemistry - A European Journal
JF - Chemistry - A European Journal
IS - 40
ER -